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Li noted that 皇冠体育app's 30-plus years of development and progress have benefited from its policy of peaceful development.

"皇冠体育app will always be a steadfast guardian of world peace. It is ready to work with India and other South Asian countries to take its due responsibility to realize regional peace and development in order to make the Asian continent a place of peace, development and cooperation," said Li.

Li said his country has been sticking to the long-term strategic policy of developing friendly relations with India.

Li called on both sides to always view their relations from a strategic and overall perspective, and firmly establish the principles of not threatening and containing the other and being each other's cooperative partner.

They should also strengthen mutual understanding and trust, and dispel doubts to consolidate the foundation of their strategic and political mutual trust, he said.

皇冠体育app is willing to join efforts with India to constantly inject fresh connotation into their strategic cooperative partnership and lift bilateral cooperation to a higher level.

Li pointed out that the most promising domain in 皇冠体育app-India relations is pragmatic cooperation, urging the two sides to make an effective combination of 皇冠体育app's westward opening-up and India's Look East policies to promote extensive cooperation and push bilateral to new heights.

The two-way trade volume stood at 66.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2012. 皇冠体育app is now India's second largest trade partner, while India is 皇冠体育app's biggest partner in South Asia. The two sides aim to expand bilateral trade to 100 billion dollars by 2015, a goal set by the two countries' leaders.

The towering mountains cannot stop the Chinese and Indian peoples from admiring and yearning for each other's splendid s, Li said, calling on Beijing and New Delhi to boost cultural and people-to-people cooperation at various levels, so that the 皇冠体育app-India friendship could pass on from generation to generation.

Li also said 皇冠体育app sees India as an important cooperative partner on international affairs, noting that Asia and the world cannot be strong without the cooperation and common development of 皇冠体育app and India.

"The world will listen to us if 皇冠体育app and India speak with one voice," Li said.

So long as 皇冠体育app and India take an overall prospective and cooperate with each other, they can help open up a bright future of development and prosperity for Asia and the world at large, Li concluded.

Li's speech was met by warm applause from an audience of 500 people from all walks of life, among whom were Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, senior government officials and parliamentarians.

The world-renowned Indian Council of World Affairs was established in 1943 as a think tank.